Lately I have been experiencing several failures with PlateSolve2, especially with the centering. I’m trying to install ASTAP, but can’t get it to work properly, and I’m wondering if there’s a guide for dummies on how to install, configure and use ASTAP?.
Default install path is c:\Program Files\astap. You could move/install it anywhere as long the executable and the .290 star database files are in the same folder.
Don’t make the same mistake I did. I didn’t initially notice that the star data base is a program and needs to be installed, not just placed in the folder astap. Once I did that it worked great, and is super fast solving previously taken images. Will try it in real time as soon as the clouds depart.